HP Fibre Channel Fabric Migration Guide

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Fabric Migration Guide
Supported Fabric Configurations
This isolated private loop is a typical configuration. It uses two hubs for
some redundancy to the target devices. This configuration will continue
to be supported.
Direct Fabric Attachment
A simple migration to a fabric configuration is to replace the two hubs
with two Fibre Channel switches. Redundant paths to the targets are
maintained while each link is isolated from each other providing better
performance and reliability.
Figure 0-2 illustrates this fabric configuration.
Figure 0-2 Direct Fabric Attachment Configuration
The advantages of this configuration are:
• Additional cabling is unnecessary.
• All devices are isolated.
• Provides independent bandwidth for each device.